 Hey, everybody. Welcome to the LaDoc Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be our homeschool plans for the fall semester. Now I recently shared our homeschool plans for the school year, which I will link up here for you guys, but I try to come back a seasonally and share a more specific plan for what that semester is going to look at. Because normally once I get into the semester or closer to it, I have a better idea of what I actually want to do in our homeschool. And that's what I love about homeschooling is that it gives me the freedom to be able to change with Emily's interest or with life or our plans or whatever. So for us, the fall is the months of, or are sorry, the months of September, October and November. So what I'm going to share is pretty much what I'm hoping that we will get done September through November. Now I'm just going to get started here. But before I do, I want to preface this by saying that this is the plan, not that this is what's actually going to happen, because best laid plans, they are what they are. So for math, our main thing that we'll be using for math will be teaching textbooks. It is the one very curriculum-y thing that we do for the most part. Emily just does the next lesson. She is using math six as of right now and I have no clue about lessons she's on. We stopped at the end of the school year. We took the summer off from teaching textbooks for the most part. And then we're going to start back in September wherever she was. In addition to teaching textbooks, Kevin does some math with her more like real-world math when they do their steam lessons. And what he has chosen to do with her for the fall semester is this life skills bargain kind of workbook that we found. I got this from Rainbow Resources. It is practical activities to teach how to shop bargains. So when I was looking through this, what I loved is it kind of teaches you like how to use coupons, how to get the best price on everything. Not just coupons, but like if it's buy one, get one free. Or like here's one talking about round trips and how to get the best price on plane tickets. So it really is that great real-world math that we were looking for. So he's going to be doing this and the Mathological Liars because Emily absolutely loves those and we've been using those for years and that's what he'll be doing with her on their steam days for math. For language arts, we do a little bit of everything. Emily absolutely loves taking book clubs on out school with Mary Hannah Wilson. I will link them in the description. As of right now, I'm pretty sure that all of them are full already, but if you are interested, get on the wait list because people will drop out and the opportunity will present itself hopefully for you to be able to get in. So for the fall, which would be again, September, October, November, she will be doing book clubs for the mouse and the motorcycle, Mr. Limoncello's very first games and the girl who stole an elephant. Now those will be for the eight to 10 year old book clubs. She is 11, but she loved this book title so she is taking that class as well as the 11 to 13 year old class. So the books for that class will be the insignificant events in the life of the cactus, framed and sweep the story of a girl and her monster. So those will be the books that she is doing book clubs with Mary with. Some of them she will read independently. Some we will read aloud. I'm pretty sure that we are reading and literally what distinguishes that is whether I want to read it or not. I'm pretty sure that I want to read all of the 11 to 13 year old books. These have all been on my personal to be read list. We'll see whether or not we get through them as read aloud. She may have to read on without me and then I'll read them after the fact if that's the way that plays out. In addition to book clubs, we will also continue doing things like journaling. This is something that we really enjoy doing in our homeschool. We do it about every other week and we just kind of randomly we'll journal about. Okay, like for example, here's a recent Disney trip that we took. We use our sprocket printer. We print pictures, we stick them on there and we will just write whatever. Sometimes it can be simple things. For example, here I'll show you. It's not always big events. This is a mixture of a big event trip as well as just some of our 5Ks and the fact that my mom was teaching her how to sew. So there's that. It doesn't always have to be anything big. Sometimes it's just simple things that are going on in our lives. We just sit down every one to two weeks and we journal about whatever speaks to us and I love that number one, she's learning how to do some personal writing and that number two, we're gonna have these really awesome memories to keep because we do it together. So we both have one of those. We will also still be doing mail time. It's mail time Monday, but it typically alternates with journaling. We don't do it every week. It's about every other week and I'm really excited because these letters that I pulled, we are specifically going to read in the month of September because they coincide with a trip that we're gonna be taking. So we have some like Big Ben, which is a national park we're gonna go to, USS Alabama, the Alamo, things that we're hoping to see on our trip. So I'm hoping that this will get us excited. And then Emily will be doing editor in chief. This is not what the cover actually looks like. I have all of our covers made like that. What it actually is is just her editing. I can find one that she's done because she's already started. She really liked the idea of being able to edit and use a red pen, mark things off. And so it is just them teaching different lessons. So this was a lesson about content and then she went through and edited for content errors. So that is what she's using just because she likes the idea, like I said, of editing and I wanted to capitalize on it. It happens to teach a little bit of everything. The lessons are grammar, punctuation, spelling. So it's kind of a little of everything run on sentences and sentence fragments. You're essentially editing for all of those mistakes. So I feel like it teaches it in a different, more fun kind of way than just, you know, this is how you spell this. And then we will be doing like some creative writing and some of the things that I have pulled to show you guys are the My52List projects. She's been working on this for, I don't know. Let's see, I guess about 17 weeks. And it just has a bunch of different lists to like list your funniest moments. List where you would go and what you would do if you could drive a car. List the ways you can take care of yourself. List your favorite things about each season. So again, just kind of a simple creative writing prompt. I pull this when I don't have anything else for her to do and she's not doing anything actively. Right now she is creating some of her own books. So we may pull this weekly. We may not pull this at all. We will see. It's one of the creative things that we do. As well as this free writing poetry notebook by Kwame Alexander, I bought this for her because she read the crossover by him and absolutely loved it. And I thought this was kind of cool because he literally walks you through all these different free writing based off of like different poetry rules. Let's see if I can find one. That's, so, Filthy's poem had three features you can try after he's read a poem. He used alliteration. He uses a lot of stellar rhyming. There's a distinct rhythm. And then he teaches you about each of those things. And then he helps you jumpstart and free write your own poem using the things that he just taught you. So the whole thing is like that. And she's just really enjoyed, like here's one poem based off of Book Spines. She's just really enjoyed being taught by an author that she enjoyed reading. So I think she's probably about halfway through it. But again, this is just something that she pulls and she's interested or if she hasn't done any kind of language arts and I'm maybe busy, I'll pull it out for her, shrew it, see if she's interested in doing it. And that kind of wraps up our language arts other than what we'll be doing in our morning basket, which I will post about that really soon for you guys. Four unit studies. This year, I am going to attempt at taking each term, if you will, which is approximately 12 weeks and splitting it into two six week chunks because of the amount of things that Emily wants to learn this year and because of some of the things we have going on field trip wise and trip wise, that is my plan. I will let you guys know how it works. So for this semester, we're gonna split the first six weeks, which would be September and part of October into basically what is going to be learning for our trip. So that is going to be using traveling the parks. We will do all of the national parks that we are planning to go to, and then we may end up doing some on our trip as well because what I know for sure that we're gonna do is Big Bend, Carlsbad Caverns, Guadalupe Mountains and White Sands. Hands down for sure, we're hitting those four. We may hit more. We are literally winging it. We are going on a trip. We are going to do whatever we can do and go as far as we can go. So we will take traveling the parks with us and if we are deciding to extend our trip, we will just school on the go with whatever's left. On our way out, we are going to be stopping in San Antonio to do the Alamo and because of that, we will be doing the Who Was Davy Crockett and What Was the Alamo. So that will be the first six weeks. It will be a history that will be a mixture of traveling the parks, Who Was Davy Crockett, What Was the Alamo and that's what we will do for that. Basically preparation for our trip and then obviously our trip will be seeing all of that in real life. The second six weeks of the term when we get back, we will be doing what will be released soon, which will be a Weather and Natural Disaster Unit Study. This was one of Emily's picks for the year. It was something she was very interested and wanted to learn more about and so this should release, I believe tomorrow, if this video goes up when I think it's going up and so it will be in the shop and it will be 30% off at the time of release and it's gonna be so much fun. I'm so excited. Weather is a topic that her and Kevin are both really, really interested in and so I think it's gonna be really fun and then to go along with that, I am doing three What Was books to get some history in. So we will be doing What Was the Great Chicago Fire? What Was Hurricane Katrina? And What Was the San Francisco earthquake? And so that is what our unit study will look like for the second six weeks, which will be half of October and hopefully all of November. In addition to all of that, the classes that she will continue to take for the fall will be a zoo class in person. It's a homeschool zoo class that she did last year in love. She's gonna do that again this year. Obviously we already talked about the book club that she'll be taking on out school. She will also be taking her Lego class, which is Interactive Bricks with Miss Bethany. I will link that in the description as well. She loves that and she's very excited to be doing that and Bethany is actually gonna be doing some of the Who Was books' inspiration and then some of the Science Comics' inspiration. So it's kind of this like when, when Emily will be doing history, science and Lego all at the same time. I don't think it gets better than that. And then she will be doing 4-H archery as well. That is kind of her thing with my dad and Kevin. I just go and observe, but she's really going to have a great time with it and that means every other week. The last thing that we have are subscriptions. Now we are going to stay subscribed to a lot of things that might be done in the fall, but the ones that I know for sure are gonna be done is what I pulled to show you guys and it's what Kevin will be doing on his steam days with her because that's the only things that gets planned. We still will be getting Universal Yums. We may or may not have time to do them because of the trip. They may be basically waiting on us when we get back. She will still be getting her Zoo Box. Again, they may just be waiting on us when we get back. But the things I know for sure that are going to get done because Kevin has them planned for their steam lessons are the Crunch Labs. They absolutely love these, like absolutely love them. And this one happens to be, I can't show you the top because our dress is up there. This one happens to be a drawing machine. The Generation Genius, they've really, really been liking these, the amount of science that's happening with them is amazing. This is kit three. Let's see if it tells me. I don't think it's gonna quickly tell me. It looks like we have an unwetable sand, a glowing slime, and a blueprint paper experiment in this box. The Kiwi Eureka Crate is another one that they really like. I will say that this is a little old for Emily to do by herself. I think the Eureka Crates are, I think the sticker is over it. I think they're like 12 to 14 plus. She definitely has to have Kevin's help with this, but the two of them together love it. And this one that they will be doing is a mechanical globe. And then the last thing that they will be doing during steam, which is probably gonna take up a good portion of the first six weeks is this Wise Elk Alamo that they will be building. So it is 510 pieces. It says five plus. It is a mini brick constructor set. I found it on Amazon and I was like, you guys are going to the Alamo, would you like to do this? They both said yes. And so this is probably what they'll be doing essentially before we leave for our trip. And then the other ones will be what they're doing once we get back. That is everything that I have planned for our fall semester. Like I said, we will also still be doing morning basket at some point during our day. It probably will not be in the morning. And I will be sharing with you the details of that soon. So if you're interested in what is in that, make sure you're subscribed and that you are turned on for notifications. That little bell will do that for you. But before I go, I would love it if you would tell me down in the comments what your plans are for homeschooling this fall.